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I just wanted to express myself and put out music of how I'm feeling - give back to my fans and gain new ones in the process.
Take photos with hater n-ggas and crop them. I am not them. I photoshop them out 'cause they don't understand what I'm about.
I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much.
My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?
People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.
I like colorful stuff. I like wearing stuff that nobody is wearing. That's why I wear the bear hat. I'll wear the whole mink.
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others
We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.
I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't serious. It was just for fun.
Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.
Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees. Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.
I think freestyling is very important. That's the key to the game, if you wanna be in the MC crowd, freestyling is important.
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.
Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.
Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress.
Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.
A crunk attitude you're just rowdy, rahhhhh! You're just crunk. But you add the crunk rock to it, and it gives you some edge.
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.
Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.
When you're dealing with people in an industry that's all about making money, they push you farther than you really wanna go.
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.
The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes.
It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.
How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.
To know that I was being heard on the radio, it made me feel as if I was, I guess, spread across New York. It was incredible.
Don't even go to the studio if you don't think that your music's going to do something. You're wasting your time and my time.
This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.
I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.
At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.
My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls and I'm married but we've got a nanny and a maid.
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
Yeah, I actually went to college. I went to Southwest Community College in Memphis; I tried to go to TSU, and they denied me.
I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people I know.
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A.... push shuffle and anything will come on.
I take them 8 to 80, dumb, crippled, and crazy. Crisp and clean with no caffeine, and a pair of spandex or either tight jeans.
Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all.
It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.
You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that.
I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.
I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.
A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.
I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.
How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow.
Ready for us to get it on, aint got a love to call steady.. Hope it aint like that for long, I'll be your friend if you let me
Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.